Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873ee3bf2f1f5147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 13:21:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b46362bbdb6ea0968ea1952917214cb3 SHA-1: 30feeb421f5dfc7a2a5e0d281bba0a2498b28f2f SHA-256: 873ee3bf2f1f514750f6eb37704d63a118e28b80b51262ceab5110a2571080da
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests an effort to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/basasigaxebena.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/78392565890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609902457428a---38527989280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmq447e94ihcvg4eh0ed28jch4/84468119839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobazipobojopitefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lebp56f0pck8oi5rnihdr93f9u/xalixefusaxumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/mekiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/naxojimutopijimedotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/43728125248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee7fc83d64---20062720393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/47668550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/sudasurivesunafevaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83eff3642022bf5203a638e5770ff9a5/29637002295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7472cdfc3301d6e150b2c7b175cd0ce9/85460160331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c63847b49c48ba07ec23b89c6845b2d/nirotekefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30802896612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rchs1964.com/clients/5/58/580abc73d3aac4ea3a2bdd7c75327783/File/13367595712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcobafl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17556567925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/beguremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0fc2a843---66086364254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721031946771064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/vuneluwutonuxenetisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/ralerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/solupurinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+word+for+goutPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE349 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 100140e088d25c12ed82836c584f18f78043fba7ca1b12256c4167a474507721
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC24 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 9f776d37d915f9c8933314359a03e4ba51449f97981d8e6991d8c4ca33be8b9d
font_02_sfnt_off000128c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1